NY- New Albany bishop named

NY- New Albany bishop named

For immediate release: Tuesday, Feb. 10

Statement by David Clohessy of St. Louis, Director of SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (314 566 9790, SNAPclohessy@aol.com)

A high ranking cleric from a diocese that's one of the most secretive with predator priests has been promoted to head the Albany Catholic diocese. Pope Francis has made another poor choice. While the pontiff has made steps forward on Vatican finances and governance, he has still done virtually nothing substantial to help expose predators, deter enablers, heal victims and prevent future clergy sex crimes and cover ups.

For a decade, Scharfenberger has been heavily involved in pedophile priest cases, in two roles (as “promoter of justice” and as a review board member). Yet we've seen not a single hopeful move in the Brooklyn diocese regarding this scandal. That diocese, like many, does only the absolute bare minimum in clergy sex abuse and cover up cases, and only then because it's required to do so by the US church's vague, weak and rarely enforced abuse policy.

Thirty bishops have posted pedophile priests' names on their websites. This is, we believe, a bare minimum public safety step. Brooklyn Catholic officials refuse to do so, even though there are at least 53 Brooklyn priests who have been publicly accused of molesting kids. Equally troubling, Brooklyn Catholic officials put a lawyer in charge of responding to abuse reports, a maneuver which we consider a shrewd and unethical way to try to handle these cases quietly and prevent victims from seeking justice in court.

We have been critical of Bishop Howard Hubbard's recklessness and callousness in chlid sex cases. So we had hoped that his replacement would be someone whose track record in this crisis had been better. But today we are disappointed.

We hope that Bishop Scharfenberger will quickly

– post predators' names on his diocesan website and in parish bulletins,

– begin personally visiting each parish where a pedophile priest worked, begging victims, witnesses and whistleblowers to call police, and

(SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, is the world’s oldest and largest support group for clergy abuse victims. We’ve been around for 25 years and have more than 15,000 members. Despite the word “priest” in our title, we have members who were molested by religious figures of all denominations, including nuns, rabbis, bishops, and Protestant ministers. Our website is SNAPnetwork.org)

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one of the rapist father gary mecue early records released & dioceses forgot to take out victims name———-surprise more friends were raped that we didn’t

Jack Cesare commented
2014-02-15 07:16:45 -0600

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Jack Cesare commented
2014-02-15 07:15:53 -0600

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Jack Cesare commented
2014-02-15 06:59:50 -0600

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Jack Cesare commented
2014-02-15 06:56:21 -0600

THENEWBISHOP IN ALBANYHAS TO ADDRESSTHERAPES IN ALBANY ON DAY 1—IF HE THINKS HE IS GOING TO DO THESAME—-HE IS IN FOR A AWAKENING

Jack Cesare commented
2014-02-15 06:54:41 -0600

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Ron Martel commented
2014-02-14 16:12:25 -0600

What is your point at stating he looks gay?

Jack Cesare commented
2014-02-14 14:35:57 -0600

many of these priest premediated taking a job as a priest knowing they were pediphiles and when they raped 12 year old children did they have any sexual transmitted anything that they gave to children—parents would never know to check this in a very young children —-these perverts needs to be in prison right next to bishop hubbards friend father mecure

Jack Cesare commented
2014-02-14 14:30:17 -0600

the new bishop looks as gay as they come —this coming from a gay man —100% gay

Jack Cesare commented
2014-02-14 14:28:47 -0600

we have been living with our rapes from saint Teresa of avila with 3 different rapist—gene Hubert the janitor was raping so many and taking his victims one of them steven Erickson who came forward to the dioceses and the district attorneys office,took his victims in his volkswagon and picked up other kids in colonie and brought them to paradox lakes and supplied them with booze and raped them-my question is how did 12 and 13 year old kids go away for a weekend with a janitor,why would any parent even let that happen,this is what we asked about in the investigation,no parent would do this -father mecure raped so many kids that they are coming forward while he is in prison,and father david Bentley raped kids in Albany and at parsons home for children in Albany ny-Bentleys # is 520-578-2200 and the new bishop of Albany is 718-361-1884 call him and let him know his # 1 priority is rapes of children in Albany which bishop hubbard has been covering up since 1977—bishop hubbard also paid 1 million dollars to get him out of sexual trouble—google agony in Albany start on page 6—-a police officer who die his wife signed a statement that her husband stated twice he caught hubbard in a car with a indian man dressed as a women and another incident on the thruway or turnpike—-35 years is long enough to cover this up when some victims have ended their life already and some of my classmates one dave topino almost lost his ,but he is alive and well and I got him to come forward of his rape by father mecure—the raped victims from the Albany catholic dioceses who have been raped—-jack cesare-steven Erickson-matt decker-Michael Flynn,michael shovoh—james gallager-james Benedetti-mr bromley and conneley brothers—enough is enoughwhat is it going to take a bullet,to end this tragedy in the albnay catholic dioceses and their lawyer Michael Costello who has help them get away with it for 35 years

Ron Martel commented
2014-02-14 07:53:19 -0600

Wasn’t his job to get rid of them. Talk to Nicky Boy

Jack Cesare commented
2014-02-14 07:50:51 -0600

what we want is to get theses rapist loser priest that have been raping children off the streets-the only way to do that in new York is to rid the statue of limitation and or include a 1 yr window that the church doesn’t want because it would bring many forward (thousands)just like 14 other state that changed the statue

Jack Cesare commented
2014-02-14 07:46:39 -0600

this seems to be a coverup again before he even steps in as new bishop—he has done nothing with the priest that abused in brooklynn

Ron Martel commented
2014-02-11 10:58:09 -0600

unfortunately you have the information wrong, Scharfenberger is probably the best priest that I know. The concerns you have with the Brooklyn Diocese have none to do with him. We often have to wonder would SNAP be happy with any appointments.